{"product_id":"my-driver-paperback","title":"My Driver - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaggie Gee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Driver\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining, droll novel, executed with a lovely, light touch. . . . Gee's control of tone is supremely artful.--Lionel Shriver, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tour de force--brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful.--Elaine Showalter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorldly, witty, enjoyable, impressive.--Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for a Pan-African writers' conference. She also intends to pay her former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. But Mary--now the executive housekeeper of the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala--has her own agenda, and she has secretly summoned Vanessa's beloved ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, to her home village to help build a well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conference over, Vanessa sets off alone on a safari to the distant Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. Farce teeters on the edge of something much darker when Vanessa quarrels with her driver and a bloody war closes in on Bwindi from Congo. Can anyone save her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Gee\u003c\/b\u003e was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's original Best Young British Novelists. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including \u003ci\u003eThe White Family\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes, and \u003ci\u003eMy Cleaner \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Flood\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and she lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner, The Flood, and The White Family which was short listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 (UK). She is the first female chair of the Royal society of Literature and lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 366\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770102546720,"sku":"9781846590795","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30fabb88ab4a2b4dc40704fd56e17821.webp?v=1780364405","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-driver-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}